Young v. Williams

The question posed for determination is, where a testator makes a will, making his wife the sole beneficiary, and then .subsequently has a child born, does a codicil executed by the testator subsequent to the birth of the child constitute a republication of his will?

The overwhelming weight of authority is that a duly executed codicil operates as a republication of the original will and -makes it speak from the date of the execution of the codicil insofar as it is not altered or revoked by the codicil. 57 Am. Jur., Wills, Section 626, page 428; 95 C.J.S., Wills, Section 303, subsections d(lj…